Improving Product and Marketing Collaboration

Note: Please register for this event using the link below! Registering through Meetup will NOT guarantee entrance.

Registration:
https://voltagecontrol.com/events/meetup/facilitation-lab/austin/

Description:
Join us for this hands-on event as we partner with the Facilitation Lab Austin for an exciting practice session! In this session, we'll explore a scenario in which the product and marketing teams clashed over a failed launch and now avoid collaborating. Leadership wants to restore the partnership. We’ll break into small groups to run quick cycles of idea generation using real or fictional challenges. Come ready to experiment, remix, and surprise yourself.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• FUN AND ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS - You'll leave with new skills that you can use when collaborating with other cross-functional teams.
• Food and drinks

Location:
Robert Rowling Hall, Room 4.314 (4th floor)
300 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd

Parking:
Street parking is free after 6 PM, so we recommend trying that before paying for the parking lot. The entrance to the Rowling Hall parking garage is on 20th Street just east of Guadalupe. When you turn onto 20th Street, you’ll see the parking garage entrance immediately on your right. Once you park, take the parking garage elevators up to the 1st floor of Rowling. Exit the parking elevator lobby and turn left; you will see another set of elevators. Take that elevator up to the 4th floor. When you exit on the 4th floor, you will see signs directing you to 4.314.

Featured Speakers:

Douglas Ferguson is an entrepreneur, educator, and human-centered technologist. He is the founder and president of Voltage Control, a facilitation academy that develops leaders through certifications, workshops, and organizational coaching focused on facilitation mastery, innovation, and play. He has helped transform leaders, innovators, and creatives from Nike, U.S. SOCOM, Google, the Air Force, Gap, Tesla, MSU, Church & Dwight, Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC. Douglas is a thought leader and author of four books: Magical Meetings, Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything, and Start Within.

Erin Warner is a facilitator leveraging the compelling synergy between her professional expertise in law, culture, fitness, and wellness. These unique ingredients merge into a facilitation approach that supports a spectrum of outcomes including camaraderie and unity (that are the basis of strong teams and strong communities), inviting exploration and growth (which stimulate innovation) and the rigor of decision-making and action (which are needed to execute on a vision).

SPONSORS:
Pragmatic Institute
Pragmatic Institute is the transformational partner for today’s businesses, providing immediate impact through actionable and practical training. Pragmatic Institute’s certifications are sought after worldwide and are the best way to tell the world about your product and data expertise.

Voltage Control
Voltage Control is a facilitation academy that develops leaders through facilitation certifications, workshops, and events. Today's leaders are confronted with unprecedented uncertainty and complex change. Navigating this uncertainty requires a systemic facilitative approach to gain clarity and chart pathways forward. We prepare today's leaders for now and what's next.